Air Compressors for Scuba Diving

Of course one of the most interesting activities that you can enjoy is scuba diving. If you live in a tropical area or an island in certain parts of the globe, you will surely love scuba diving. That said, you cannot get the best from scuba diving without using certain tools, and one of the most important of these tools is nothing but an air compressor. 

 There are specialized air compressors for scuba diving. When you go for scuba diving, you need to breathe under the water, and it is for this reason that scuba divers make use of an air tank that contains compressed air. If you are going to do regular and recreational diving, normal atmospheric air is used. Still, it is compressed to about a factor of 200.

 When underwater, the scuba diver makes use of a pressure regulator (placed in the mouth) to return the air from high-pressure point to the normal atmospheric pressure which is the same at the surface of the water. It can also be for the local underwater pressure; it all depends on the depth at which the diver is located.

  The air that is placed inside the compressors is not strange, it is the same atmospheric air, but the difference here is that it is compressed about 200 times. The compression of the air is necessary so that you can get to store a lot more of it when you go below the water. The compression itself is carried out using a scuba air compressor.

 From what has been described, the task of a scuba air compressor is to do the compression of air from one atmospheric bar pressure to 200 bars. For obvious reasons, contaminants like dust, particles, chemicals, and other substances must not be in the air. There is also a need to ensure that the compressor can produce as much as 200 bars of pressure, and that is done at a logical flow rate. This way, the scuba tanks get filled up on time.

 If you visit a dive shop, you are most likely going to find the compressor at the rear end of the store. For those who are still not sure of how an ideal scuba air compressor is, it is one that can produce neat, oil-free, and dry air, and it does so without generating any noise. Even though no scuba air compressor can provide all these features perfectly, it gives you a very good idea of what to look out for when searching for the ideal air compressor for your scuba diving.

In conducting your search for air compressors, you are going to come across various types, and of course, they come with different prices. Many of the air compressors you are going to come across are either three or four-stage reciprocating compressors. Also, based on the kind of lubrication, there are oil-free and oil-lubricated diving air compressors, you just need to select the one that is best for your needs.

If you use an air compressor for personal scuba diving, then you will need to fill the tank up with a high-pressure hose that goes via the compressor to the scuba tank.
If you own a diving centre or a scuba shop, then you should consider using a storage tank as you will go through many tanks throughout the day.